Tag Archives: internet

My New Addiction: Making Mini-Tours of the Internet

Thanks to Hazel, I am now aware that I can comment on pages and link them together into little “tours” that take a surfer through a subject.I’m playing with Trailfire and have created 3 such tours so far, about 6-7 stops in length each.Here’s the page with the ones I’ve completed/am working on, sorry if …

July 8, 2008 – 6:49 pm | By ashok | Posted in blogging, poetry | Tagged | Comments (0)

Some Questions about Online Image

1. I’m not hip enough to join this site. (I’ll probably still try it out though, I wanna try being an online hipster. One day I might be good enough for the Olympics.) 2. I do project the image I want, though, both online and off. This isn’t foolproof, and I have regrets, but I’ve …

June 18, 2008 – 5:24 pm | By ashok | Posted in blogging | Tagged | Comments (3)

So What Exactly Does 25,000 Unique Visitors Mean?

This blog is hitting some neat numerical milestones more and more rapidly. I am very happy with the volume of traffic: I just wish some of the search engine traffic did me a favor and linked back to me or credited me elsewhere. But I really can’t complain about not having exposure – the deep …

May 1, 2008 – 4:27 pm | By ashok | Posted in blogging | Tagged | Comments (0)

Things I Think I’ve Learned About The Internet While Blog Promoting

Karl Rove has rightly observed that images/video/audio are far more powerful on the internet than print. He asserts the news cycle has speeded up here, and as a consequence, I say that “reading” is taking a backseat to our now instinctive habit of “watching a screen flicker and being amused for hours.” I don’t have …

April 17, 2008 – 3:14 pm | By ashok | Posted in blogging, personal | Tagged | Comments (1)

Wondering about us.

At this point I’ve met hundreds – maybe even thousands – of people online. A good number of them I’ve spoken to directly for prolonged periods of time. Some have been advised by me, fewer have gotten some sort of writing or encouragement from me, and very, very few have even asked questions to get …

April 14, 2008 – 10:43 pm | By ashok | Posted in personal | Tagged | Comments (1)

Should Academics Blog?

Lecture to be delivered in 2025 or whenever this blog gets popular, and not by me, but by whatever android holds my brain. I plan to be dead from drug abuse and an incredible amount of dirty sexual activity that is heterosexual in nature. Shut up now, the android’s about to speak. I have been …

January 28, 2008 – 3:15 am | By ashok | Posted in academia, blogging, media | Tagged | Comments (7)

Keeping One’s Online Persona Intact

Amber reports on Ezra Klein’s little problem – I’d quite frankly be more worried about having written articles this awful if I were Klein, though. A long time ago I realized even having a completely clean persona, one was vulnerable to attacks online. In fact, back then I was actually more vulnerable to trolls, because …

January 17, 2008 – 7:31 pm | By ashok | Posted in blogging, politics | Tagged | Comments (5)

State of the Blog, 1/11/2008

Raw numbers: Traffic is up this week, at an average of 117 unique visitors a day as of this posting. When I was in Dallas/CR, that number was 30-40. Before that, there were weeks in November where I would average 150 a day, but if we extend the calendar all the way back there is …

January 11, 2008 – 4:48 am | By ashok | Posted in blogging | Tagged | Comments (1)

The Many Ways Of Keeping Up and Participating With This Blog

If you use a feed reader, you can subscribe to this blog’s feed. If you don’t know what a feed reader is, it’s actually a lot of fun – its a way of creating your own newspaper out of any media that offers feeds. Google Reader is probably the best feed reader and gives a …

November 6, 2007 – 3:27 pm | By ashok | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Over at the Forums…

Amanda and I consider closely Erin Elizabeth’s poems on “The Chainsaw Bears” Lady Strange echoes a love Reddit seems to have for Putin; Gracchi wonders about a Russian candidate named Vladimir Bukovsky Chuck Palahniuk’s “Haunted” is commented on Eamonn recommends Habermas and Russell for reading People have been asking about the state of the forums, …

November 6, 2007 – 10:07 am | By ashok | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | Comments (0)